Flood of music from some personal favorites

Fans of Kingsley Flood, Brian Setzer, Gaslight Anthem, Life in a Blender and "Weird Al" Yankovic have much to celebrate this summer, although that might describe nobody besides me.

Pete Chianca

It’s shaping up to be an explosive summer for people who have exactly my taste in music, which may be nobody except myself. So, yay me!

I’ve already told you about “Weird Al” Yankovic’s impending album, “Mandatory Fun,” due out July 15 -- you can now pre-order it on Amazon, but he cagily left off the track listing so we can’t go around guessing which songs are parodies of which other songs, or what food products might be mentioned. Well played, Mr. Yankovic.

But that’s not all that’s in the works for the summer months:

• Kingsley Flood, the literate rock combo based at least part-time in scenic Gloucester, Mass., is releasing a live album next week called “Live at the Armory,” and you can get a six-song sampler (right now! this second!) free at Noisetrade.com. Kingsley Flood had one of the best albums of 2013 -- my review here -- and if you haven’t caught on yet, I have a feeling the live disc will be a great way to break in on the Flood’s ground floor.

• Brian Setzer continues his decades-long F-U to the music industry by playing only exactly what he wants to play, be it souped-up swing, rocking instrumentals or searing rockabilly -- this time it’s the latter category, with “Rockabilly Riot: All Original” due out Aug. 12. He talked to Time.com about rockabilly’s continued appeal and people tattooing his face on themselves, which freaks him out. He also debuted the album's lead single, "Let's Shake," which is guaranteed to promote shaking.

(Meanwhile, I await to a sequel to 2007's “Wolfgang’s Big Night Out,” his album of rock-swing versions of classical compositions, which was awesomer than it sounds.)

• The Gaslight Anthem quietly finished up its contract with Side One Dummy records earlier this year with “The B-Sides,” which was fine if you like covers and acoustic versions of their old songs (and with a title like that, you knew you were getting leftovers). But their debut for Mercury promises to be more ambitious -- “Get Hurt” drops Aug. 19, and if first single “Rollin’ and Tumblin’” is any indication, we’re looking at a grungy comeback for the punky Jersey dudes.

• And finally, Life in a Blender continues to promote their utterly original album “We Already Have Birds That Sing” (review here) with a suitably creepy video for the track “Frankenstein Cannot Be Stopped" by "art-horror filmmaker" Larry Fessenden, which debuted this week at Popdose. For anyone who thought the song might be a metaphor for man’s inhumanity to man, the video pretty much confirms that no, it’s about Frankenstein. Check it out here: